It was the fourth of July, 2005. I was out on a lake near my house wader-fishing in the pads on the edge of the lake. That is a really good spot and I had been doing very well there surface fishing for bass with a 3 hook rapala. 2 trucks pulled up behind my parents and about 14 people got out of them, some of them in the backs. We found out then that there were fireworks on that lake that night. I decided to keep fishing, as I was 1 fish short of my limit. It was getting darker. I figured I only had a couple more casts before I had to go up.

I cast my rapala in a promising looking pocket and started twitching it back. There was a big splash and I hooked and reeled frantically. I knew I had a fish on there, the line was heavy, but I didn't feel anything fighting. I reeled it in. When I picked my rapala up out of the water, I saw why there wasn't much fighting. There was a 3 pound bass on the back hook and a 1 pound bass on the front! I figured they must have had a disagreement on which way to swim so they didn't do very much pulling. :ROFL:

I wish there weren't so many people there when I caught the 2 fish. It gave away 1 of my good fishing spots, but I haven't seen them there very often.



Riley

Great picture of some great fish. It never happened to me but it did to a young man I used to take fishing. We were fishing from shore for striped bass using live bait on hi-lo rigs. He yelled to me for help and I thought he was kidding. He needed help, he pulled in two bass, a five and an eight pounder! That was some day. If I can find the picture I'll post it later.

Mark

Way to go Riley :ThumbsUp: It kind of makes ya feal like... :o when something like that happens Great story, By the way have you ordered your "NEW PET" yet?
R

Randy, his mom won't let him get a pet scorpion. :( :dunno:

Riley, that was a fun night and what an audience you had! We were just lucky one of the spectators had a good camera along so we got that picture.